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Wait Darko Milicic has a championship ring? Yes he does. Milicic was part of the 2004 Detroit Pistons championship team. Anyways Milicic is auctioning off his ring for a good cause. He's wants to raise awareness about Batten's disease. The proceeds will go to The Zorana and Darko Milicic Fund for Children with Life Threatening Diseases.
Via Detroit Free Press:
Batten’s is a neurological disorder that affects mostly children and gradually causes blindness, seizures and death. Milicic is also auctioning off the championship belt that was given to him by Rasheed Wallace.
“Whatever money (I raise) is going to be good because those treatments cost a lot and those people can’t afford it,” Milicic said before his Minnesota Timberwolves played the Phoenix Suns tonight.
Milicic became familiar with the condition after he and his wife read a newspaper story in his native Serbia about a family confronted with it. Out of the blue, he paid ...
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